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%A Curwood, Anastasia Carol, 1974-
%E JSTOR books.
%I University of North Carolina Press
%D 2010
%C Chapel Hill
%G English
%@ 9780807868386 (electronic bk.)
%@ 0807868388 (electronic bk.)
%T Stormy weather middle-class African American marriages between the two World Wars
%U http://ezproxy.villanova.edu/login?URL=http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807868386_curwood
%X The so-called New Negroes of the period between World Wars I and II embodied a new sense of racial pride and upward mobility for the race. Many of them thought that relationships between spouses could be a crucial factor in realizing this dream. But there was little agreement about how spousal relationships should actually function in an ideal New Negro marriage. Shedding light on an often-overlooked aspect of African American social history, Anastasia Curwood explores the public and private negotiations over gender relationships inside marriage that consumed upwardly mobile black Americans be.